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CureAssist
AI Assisted Smart Healthcare Revolution
Saurabh Satija
Co-founder & CEO
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emote diagnosis has
previously been
efficaciously applied in
specific situations, such as long
expeditions, conflict zones and lately
in remote populations. These
proficiencies have paved the way for
varied use of remote diagnosis,
especially in developing countries.
Increased efficacy is needed to meet
the growing patient demand. Remote
diagnosis collects and analyzes data,
captivating in a larger range of
data—considering both a person’s
past medical history as well as
associated data from the patients
with similar illnesses than doctors
typically have accessible to them.
Employing AI reinforced
technologies; remote diagnosis can
chaperon doctors to make informed
choices faster and more accurately.
CureAssist is one such AI-powered
on-demand assessment & remote
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diagnostics platform, which enables
users, regardless of their location to
get first level assessment of one’s
health, diagnosis by a medical
professional, access to preventive
care services without having to leave
their home or workplace.
The company works towards a
single point vision to democratize
healthcare and provide access to
primary healthcare to everyone
regardless of the geographical
location they are in.
Empowering Journey of
CureAssist
Saurabh Satija, the Co-founder of
CureAssist is a serial entrepreneur &
hit upon the idea while working with
his last startup – HealthSocho. This
company solved availability for
alternate medicines, where he kept
getting requests from users to
recommend products for specific
symptoms. “Since it was alternate
medicine (Ayurveda, Nutraceuticals,
etc.) people thought it was ok to self-
medicate on the basis of symptoms,”
asserts Saurabh. He would
consistently request HealthSocho
users to visit doctors to understand
what their symptom entails and why
they should not self-medicate. While
some patients would ignore the
request, others would talk about
geographical constraints and quality
of doctors available in their locality.
These consumer responses led
Saurabh to look at healthcare more
closely and realize that there is a
major supply restraint in terms of
the number of doctors available in
the country (800,000 for a
population of 1.3 billion) and how
skewed the concentration is - more
that 70 percent of the doctors are in
Metro and Tier 1 towns, which
DECEMBER 2018